Methods Classes: Action
UMass
Method: Action Research
School: Umass
Course: Public Health 301
Course Level (G/U): Undergraduate
Course Title: Principles of Community Health Education
Course Description: This course provides the student with an understanding of major theories used to understand health problems in communities. Grounded in social and behavioral sciences, students will examine the tools and strategies used by public health educators to educate and empower people about health issues.
Instructor(s): Janette Jen Dolan
Fall 2012 Schedule:
Method: Action Research
School: Umass
Course: Public Health 302
Course Level (G/U): Undergraduate
Course Title: Community Development and Health Education
Course Description: This course provides students with the opportunity to explore approaches to community development and organizing. Students will gain skills and techniques to involve people in the analysis of the health problems that affect them. Students will also discuss potential solutions to community health problems. This course will incorporate new technologies as tools to examine local community health issues. Students will also be introduced to the principles and methods of community participatory research in local communities.
Instructor(s): Risa Silverman
Fall 2012 Schedule:
Method: Action Research
School: Umass
Course: Public Health 324
Course Level (G/U): Undergraduate
Course Title: Epidemiology in Public Health
Course Description: This course is intended to introduce the science of epidemiology and to explore how epidemiologic methods are applied to solving public health problems. Students will learn basic quantitative methods, study design concepts, and critical thinking skills relating to infectious and chronic disease epidemiology.
Instructor(s): Sofija Zagarins, Karen Ertel
Fall 2012 Schedule:
Method: Action Research
School: Umass
Course: Public Health 632
Course Level (G/U): Graduate
Course Title: Applied Epidemiology
Course Description:Intermediate level course. Application of epidemiologic methods to study the etiology, control, and impact on society of selected diseases.
Instructor(s): Susan Sturgeon
Fall 2012 Schedule:
Method: Action Research
School: Umass
Course: Public Health 638
Course Level (G/U): Graduate
Course Title: Cardiovascular Epidemiology
Course Description:The application of epidemiological methods to the study of cardiovascular disease. Emphasis on the methodology used to ascertain risk factors associated with cardiovascular disease. Trends and patterns in the disease discussed.
Instructor(s): Staff
Fall 2012 Schedule:
Method: Action Research
School: Umass
Course: Public Health 748
Course Level (G/U): Graduate
Course Title: Survival Theory in Public Health and Science
Course Description:The analysis of time to event data focusing on applications of regression models to right censored data. Particular emphasis on the use and interpretation of the pro-portional hazards model.
Instructor(s): Raji Balasubramanian
Fall 2012 Schedule:
Method: Action Research
School: Umass
Course: Public Health 690EW
Course Level (G/U): Graduate
Course Title: Epidemiology of Women's Health
Course Description: This course provides an overview of current issues in the epidemiology of women's health throughout the life cycle. Students will explore how epidemiologic methods are used to evaluate factors influencing reproductive health, cancer, cardiovascular disease and other common disorders in women. Students will learn basic quantitative methods, study design concepts, and critical thinking skills.
Instructor(s): Elizabeth Bertone-Johnson, Katherine Reeves
Fall 2012 Schedule:
Method: Action Research
School: Umass
Course: Psychology 494RI
Course Level (G/U): Undergraduate
Course Title: Interdisciplinary Directions in Psychology
Course Description:The Psychology IE course will focus on the content areas of Psychology as they relate to real-world problems. We will consider areas of Psychology where our majors may be employed after graduation. The course will be organized into a series of six units. Each unit will be introduced and discussed in a lecture and carried over into recitation sections. Course content will represent each of the five areas of the department in various themes throughout the course; some themes will cross disciplinary boundaries contained within the department. Lectures, assignments, and activities will allow the students to integrate principles learned in general education courses by applying them to the psychology major.
Instructor(s): Christina Metevier
Fall 2012 Schedule:
Method: Action Research
School: Umass
Course: Nursing 415
Course Level (G/U): Undergraduate
Course Title: Community Focus in Nursing
Course Description:The application of public health theory, epidemiology, nursing theory and selected social, cultural, political, economic and environmental theories provides the student knowledge to apply the nursing process to a selected community. The outcome will be: identification of health concerns, barriers to access, and strategies for community health promotions and wellness.
Instructor(s): Micheline Asselin
Fall 2012 Schedule: see here
Method: Action Research
School: Umass
Course: Nursing 605
Course Level (G/U): Graduate
Course Title: Advanced Health Assessment
Course Description:
Instructor(s):Staff
Fall 2012 Schedule:
Method: Action Research
School: Umass
Course: Education 615F
Course Level (G/U): Graduate
Course Title: School Data
Course Description: This course aims to assist school personnel develop [sic] a framework of the collection, analysis, and use of school data to improve instructions. It begins with understanding the policy dynamics and mandates as well as the current research landscape in regard to the utility of assessment accountability to improve schooling.
Instructor(s): See here.
Fall 2012 Schedule: See Spire
Smith
Method: Action Research
School: Smith
Course: Sociology 315
Course Level (G/U): Undergraduate
Course Title: Practicum in Community-Based Research
Course Description:In this seminar we will draw on sociological and interdisciplinary perspectives to consider features of the social construction, regulation, control, and experience of the body. Through diverse theoretical frameworks, we will view the body both as a product of discourses (such as medical knowledge and practice, media representations, and institutional regimens), and as an agent of social activities and interactions in daily life. We will consider the salience of bodies in constituting identities, relationships, and differences; as bases for inequalities and forms of suffering; and as sites of resistance and struggles for change.
Instructor(s): E. Wheatley
Fall 2012 Schedule:
Mount Holyoke
Method: Assessment; Fieldwork; Action Research
School: Mount Holyoke
Course: Psychology 340f
Course Level (G/U): Undergraduate
Course Title: Laboratory in Perception and Cognition Cognition and Literacy
Course Description:Community-based learning course. Adult illiteracy in the U.S. presents an ever-growing challenge. To understand this problem, we will learn various theories of reading. However, since many models of reading are based on data gathered from children, we will also examine how the cognitive abilities of adults are different from those of children. A large component of this class concerns learning the lab techniques associated with assessing reading abilities. In addition, since this is a community-based learning course, each student will become a tutor for an adult enrolled in an area literacy program.
Prereq. a 100-level course in psychology, 201, 200 and permission of instructor. Students must meet with the professor during advising week to get permission to enter the course.; 3 hours per week as a literacy tutor in Springfield is required.
Instructor(s): Binder
Fall 2012 Schedule: yes